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Re:He’s start-ups' best friend by paulbaumgart on Thursday April 29, 2010 @12:45AM (#1303604)
The venue was Y Combinators, a kind of "American Idol" for geeks that helps entrepreneurs turn promising ideas into businesses that will attract investors.

WTF?

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Re:He’s start-ups' best friend by patio11 on Thursday April 29, 2010 @03:44AM (#1303845)
It is a good thing that the LA Times has layers of fact checkers and multiple editors to catch mistakes before they go into print. Otherwise, they'd just be bloggers with better suits and worse balance sheets.
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Re:He’s start-ups' best friend by trafficlight on Thursday April 29, 2010 @12:46AM (#1303606)
Is he suggesting startups are voted off the island?
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Re:He’s start-ups' best friend by jey on Thursday April 29, 2010 @01:12AM (#1303629)
Maybe he's confusing Paul Graham with George Foreman?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41RZKHGga0Q

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Re:He’s start-ups' best friend by davidmurphy on Thursday April 29, 2010 @01:07AM (#1303621)
Founder Institute does that. Actually about half of the people who go in are kicked out.
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Re:He’s start-ups' best friend by pmjoyce on Thursday April 29, 2010 @04:55AM (#1303929)
Yeah, I hear Bootup Labs take a similar approach <joke>
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